Butterball Signs $34M Price-Fixing Deal With Turkey Buyers

By Hailey Konnath

Butterball LLC has agreed to shell out $34 million to put to rest turkey buyers' claims in sprawling price-fixing litigation, according to a motion filed Friday in Illinois federal court, bringing the long-running battle to an end ahead of a scheduled trial.

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Union Pacific Loses Bid To Block BIPA Class Claims

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge on Thursday certified a class of more than 22,000 truck drivers accusing Union Pacific of violating Illinois' biometric privacy law and denied the railroad's bid for summary judgment, finding that the finger scans in question fall in the purview of the statute and rejecting the railroad's federal preemption and government-contractor defenses.

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Illinois-Led States Win TRO To Block DOT Bid For CDL Data

By Tom Lotshaw

A Virginia federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from obtaining a database containing information on 17 million commercial driver's license holders, ruling in favor of 21 states that allege it unlawfully demanded the records for immigration enforcement.

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JLL Hit With Developer's $12M Fraud Suit Over DC Project

By Isaac Monterose

A real estate developer and a property owner are suing Jones Lang LaSalle Americas Inc. for more than $12 million, alleging in Illinois state court that JLL defrauded them by making misleading claims about the potential financial success of a multifamily project in Washington, D.C.

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Analysis

The Race Is On To Confirm Trump's Judges By Year-End

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump nominated 11 judges this past week, meaning 19 nominees are now in the pipeline. But how many can the Senate confirm before the end of the year, given that it will mostly be absent and consumed by the midterm election? 

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DNA Can Prove Your Innocence — If They Let You Test It

By Marco Poggio

Since the mid-1980s, DNA testing has exonerated hundreds of wrongfully convicted people and reshaped the criminal justice system. Rodney Reed's decades-long unsuccessful effort to test the belt prosecutors say he used to kill a woman, however, shows how difficult access to post-conviction DNA testing can be, even for prisoners with credible innocence claims.

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Brief

Motorola Rival Blasts 'Rush' To Add Latest Radio To IP Fight

By Lauraann Wood

Motorola Solutions' Chinese rival on Friday blasted the company's "rush" to ask an Illinois federal judge to supplement their long-running mobile radio source code fight with allegations targeting its latest product as Hytera Communications confirmed its opposition to the proposal.

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Roundup

Balancing The Scales: Diminished Capacity, Sentencing Rules

By Orlando Lorenzo

The Michigan Supreme Court has overturned 25 years of state precedent by reviving the diminished capacity defense, and the justices in Pennsylvania said the Legislature is out of time to craft new sentencing guidelines for second-degree murder. Here, Law360 highlights access to justice stories arising from litigation, verdicts and judgments you may have missed.

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Roundup

Real Estate Recap: Retail, Hospitality Leaders Weigh In

By Real Estate Authority Staff

Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including interviews with real estate attorneys about the latest trends in the retail and hospitality sectors, among others.

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Roundup

Taxation With Representation: Fenwick, Hengeler Mueller

By Zak Kostro

In this week's Taxation With Representation, Santander SA completes its acquisition of U.S. regional lender Webster Financial Corp., financial services company Stripe buys artificial intelligence routing platform OpenRouter and Madison Air Solutions Corp. acquires German airflow technology maker ebm-papst.

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Brief

Ashurst Perkins Adds DOJ National Security Atty In Chicago

By Tracey Read

A former trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division has joined Ashurst Perkins Coie LLP as a partner in its complex litigation practice in Chicago after more than 12 years in public service.

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AGs Want Meta's Privilege Claims Reviewed In Bellwether Trial

By Dorothy Atkins

During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.  

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Legal Center Says DOJ Is Stonewalling Fund Records Request

By Jared Foretek

A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.

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Galindo Law Files For Ch. 11 After Camp Lejeune Fee Fight

By Ben Zigterman

A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

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Attys Ask Court To Toss Suit Alleging They Stole 1,000 Cases

By Spencer Brewer

Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.

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